Year: 1887
Type: article
Abstract: liquefaction after several days.Sown in fluid broth and incubated, it rapidly forms a coherent parchment-like film, which is not easily broken up, and, even if the flask be well shaken, will yet float on the surface.Later, it develops an extraordinary deep wrinkling, which, if it be microscopically examined, is seen to be made up of a dense, felted network of bacillary filaments.Sown in test-tubes of Koch's jelly it rapidly liquefies it, but with no distinct growth-formation.The fluid thus formed is crowded with the motile bacilli, but a pellicle is not found until the liquefaction is well advanced."From these observations I conclude that the organism provisionally named by Dr. Edington the " bacillus scarlatinae," is in all proba- bility nothing more than a common septic bacillus, which in former years was considered as belonging to the group of species of Bacillus subtilis of Cohn.
Source: BMJ
Author: J. Reid
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2010423223